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(Note – SBH – This page should be read in conjunction with the pages dedicated to the Sanquhar Brick and Tile Works and the Buccleuch Terracotta Works) Coal has been mined in the Sanquhar and Kirkconnel area since earliest times. In the late 1700s the Duke of Queensberry began to develop the coalfields on his…

Found by Eddie Mclean in the Glasgow area. NCB stands for National Coal Board which ran many brick works in Scotland between 1947 and 1969. Usually the NCB is stamped alongside the brick works name eg NCB Whitehill or NCB Gartshore but here we just have NCB – so which brick works does this belong…

Canmore Info from Andrew Wood – The META coal mine, brick work & briquetting plant was named after Meta Mary Graham Mitchell. She was the mother of the Managing Director of the Alloa Coal Company, Sir Harold Paton Mitchell. After the mine was nationalised in 1947, the bricks were marked SBC. Alloa Coal Co Ltd –…